The son of former Representative Bud Shuster has been elected to the south-central Pennsylvania district his father represented for 28 years. In a special election on Tuesday, the son, Bill Shuster, left, a Republican like his father, had 52...

Mixing harsh words with leniency, the House ethics committee has criticized Representative Bud Shuster, the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, for improper links with a lobbyist who once worked for him and for other misbehavior. The...

Two lobbyists pleaded guilty today in Boston to relatively minor charges arising from a huge construction project in Boston, thereby ending an investigation that had seemed to threaten the chairman of the House transportation committee. The...

Acting on a request of the Justice Department, the House ethics committee agreed today to delay interviews and depositions of witnesses in an investigation of the influence on transportation issues by Representative Bud Shuster, the Pennsylvania...

June 11, 1998, Thursday

An associate of the House transportation committee chairman was accused today of illegally collecting more than $200,000 by using her position to help two businessmen whose property lay in the way of a huge Boston construction project. A grand...

April 10, 1998, Friday

Nearly two years after news accounts first raised questions about his dealings, the wildly misnamed House Ethics Committee has finally gotten around to opening an investigation into Representative Bud Shuster, the Pennsylvania Republican who heads...

November 21, 1997, Friday

The House ethics committee announced today that it had begun an investigation into Representative Bud Shuster, the Pennsylvania Republican who is chairman of the House Transportation Committee. The committee acted in response to a year-old...

November 15, 1997, Saturday

Less than a year after Speaker Newt Gingrich was reprimanded and fined $300,000, the House ethics committee voted on Tuesday to keep active a complaint accusing him of campaign finance violations. Operating with new members and a new set of rules,...

Representative Bud Shuster says he has witnessed some ''pretty heady stuff'' in his 24 years in Congress, like flying into jungles with Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan rebel leader, and crossing the Khyber Pass with the mujahedeen guerrillas. But his...

Backing away from a showdown over spending in a highway bill, Speaker Newt Gingrich and the chairman of the House transportation committee agreed to a truce today that would give them until next year to resolve their differences. Senior aides on...